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AP Spanish Literature and Culture Exam Format

The AP Spanish Literature and Culture Exam assesses students' proficiencies across a range of modes of communication—with special attention to the interpretive and presentational modes of communication—and asks students to reflect on the many voices and cultures included in a rich and diverse body of literature written in Spanish. The exam is 3 hours long and includes both an 80-minute multiple-choice section and a 100-minute free-response section. The multiple-choice section accounts for half of the student's exam grade, and the free-response section accounts for the other half.

Multiple-Choice Section

Section I assesses students' understanding of the works, authors, genres, and periods included in the required reading list, as well as language proficiency in the interpretive mode of communication. Some questions require students to show understanding of cultural or interdisciplinary information contained in the text.

Section I, Part A (Interpretive Listening) contains 15 questions in three sets that are based on authentic audio texts related to course content. The audio texts include an excerpt from an interview with an author, a recited poem that is not on the required reading list, and a brief presentation on a literary topic related to course content. Students will have time to skim the questions for each set before listening to the audio. The interview and presentation will be played once; the recited poem will be played twice.

Section I, Part B (Reading Analysis) contains 50 questions in six sets that are based on literary readings representing a variety of genres, periods, and places in the Spanish-speaking world. The literary readings include works from the required reading list, works that are not on the list, and one passage of literary criticism regarding a work or author from the list. One set in Section I, Part B contains two passages that are related by theme—one of those passages is taken from the required reading list.

Free-Response Section

Section II, the free-response section, assesses students' ability to analyze structural and rhetorical features of literary texts as well as the significance of the contexts in which the texts were written. Students are also assessed in the presentational mode of communication by writing comprehensible text analyses that demonstrate their understanding of course content. In this section of the exam, students are given two short-answer questions and two essay questions to complete in 100 minutes. They may answer the questions in any order; recommended times are printed in the exam booklet (15 minutes for each of the short answers, 35 minutes for each of the essays).

AP Spanish Literature and Culture Exam Format